Exception Words

English: Year 5 & 6 National Curriculum, topic 1.1.4

Reading Exception Words

Exception words

Exception words

  • You have learned lots of different spelling and phonics rules.
  • But sometimes, words don't follow these rules and don't sound as you would expect them to.
Examples

Examples

  • Accident
  • Bicycle
  • Experiment
  • Medicine
  • Separate
More examples

More examples

  • Ancient
  • Bruise
  • Dictionary
Even more examples

Even more examples

  • Lightning
  • Neighbour
  • Restaurant

Test yourself on Exception Words

  • Which word should go in the gap?

    He was in a car ____.

  • Which of these is the correct spelling?

  • What words are mentioned in the clip?

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